Personalized Exercises for Students of Elementary Russian*

Abstract

months of instruction. At that time a change takes place in the students' attitude toward their work. Many are no longer it; their interest has greatly declined, and this slump in interest is accompanied only too often by indifferent class performance. Gone are the eagerness, curiosity and sense of novelty with which they began their Russian, and they have not yet progressed to a point where their mastery of structure and vocabulary make it possible for them to express themselves correctly in an uncontrolled situation. By this critical period of study, furthermore, resistance sets in when the class is fed a straight diet of the standard drills-be they the old-fashioned type or the more recent structural drills which are de-